ARTS
The arts section primarily comprises two examples of poetic epitaphs. Other significant samples illustrate the good level of local crafts in the field of sculpture. The production of good quality funerary altars is documented in Alba Fucens, while the typology of the stele with door appears characteristic of the whole area around the Fucino, between 1st century B.C. and the 1st century A.D.
The symbolic meaning of this representation recalls the “dwelling”: the door represents the passage from life to death, the entrance to the afterlife.
Another typical production of the area, and more precisely to be located in Marruvium (S. Benedetto) is that of funerary stones with a cylindrical column with a cap top hemispherical on which a snake is curled up.
19 – Left part of a tabula framed in limestone. II century. A.D. (via Valeria – Alba Fucens).
D(is) M(anibus) [s(acrum)]. Aediae [- – – – – – – – – – – – -] Haec tenet exanimam [tellus natalis, in urbe] quae nupsit Roma, morbi [sed quinque ea fraudi] post annos veniens visum La[ris arva paterni] incidit infelixs pr(a)egnax, sa[lvamque puellam] sic enixa est misera acerbaq[ue morte perempta] lugentesque suos miseros [cum prole reliquit] et tulit Elysium viginti e[t quattuor annis]. Eutyches et Hi[lara? parentes posuerunt].
20 – Limestone block originally inserted in a wall, mutilated on the right. 1st century A.D. (Capelle).
Novana T(iti) l(iberta) Tryphera ex [testamento]. Studium habui ut facerem viva mihi aet[ernam domum: mors intercessit, iam mihi, coniunx optime,] tua bonitas fecit. Titulus declarat meus quo[d fuerit studium me erga pietatis tibi].
21 – Limestone funerary altar with triangular pediment between two pulvini. 1st century A.D. (Alba Fucens).
C(aio) Pompuleio Helio, Pacuvio Communi, Pacuvio Cadmo p(ecunia) s(ua).
22 – Limestone funerary stele with the representation of a door surmounted by a tympanum. Second half of the 1st century (Avezzano).
Titucia M(anii) filia. «(Qui giace) Titucia, figlia di Manio (Titucio)».
23 – Limestone block with a frieze of arms in relief originally inserted in the masonry of a public building of recent decades of the first century. BC, perhaps a portico around the campus (the parade ground) of Alba Fucens
ARTS
The arts section primarily comprises two examples of poetic epitaphs. Other significant samples illustrate the good level of local crafts in the field of sculpture. The production of good quality funerary altars is documented in Alba Fucens, while the typology of the stele with door appears characteristic of the whole area around the Fucino, between 1st century B.C. and the 1st century A.D.
The symbolic meaning of this representation recalls the “dwelling”: the door represents the passage from life to death, the entrance to the afterlife.
Another typical production of the area, and more precisely to be located in Marruvium (S. Benedetto) is that of funerary stones with a cylindrical column with a cap top hemispherical on which a snake is curled up.
19 – Left part of a tabula framed in limestone. II century. A.D. (via Valeria – Alba Fucens).
D(is) M(anibus) [s(acrum)]. Aediae [- – – – – – – – – – – – -] Haec tenet exanimam [tellus natalis, in urbe] quae nupsit Roma, morbi [sed quinque ea fraudi] post annos veniens visum La[ris arva paterni] incidit infelixs pr(a)egnax, sa[lvamque puellam] sic enixa est misera acerbaq[ue morte perempta] lugentesque suos miseros [cum prole reliquit] et tulit Elysium viginti e[t quattuor annis]. Eutyches et Hi[lara? parentes posuerunt].
20 – Limestone block originally inserted in a wall, mutilated on the right. 1st century A.D. (Capelle).
Novana T(iti) l(iberta) Tryphera ex [testamento]. Studium habui ut facerem viva mihi aet[ernam domum: mors intercessit, iam mihi, coniunx optime,] tua bonitas fecit. Titulus declarat meus quo[d fuerit studium me erga pietatis tibi].
21 – Limestone funerary altar with triangular pediment between two pulvini. 1st century A.D. (Alba Fucens).
C(aio) Pompuleio Helio, Pacuvio Communi, Pacuvio Cadmo p(ecunia) s(ua).
22 – Limestone funerary stele with the representation of a door surmounted by a tympanum. Second half of the 1st century (Avezzano).
Titucia M(anii) filia. «(Qui giace) Titucia, figlia di Manio (Titucio)».
23 – Limestone block with a frieze of arms in relief originally inserted in the masonry of a public building of recent decades of the first century. BC, perhaps a portico around the campus (the parade ground) of Alba Fucens